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Time for Action – styling controls

Let's work with styling some OpenLayers controls. We won't be creating a theme here; instead, we'll just link to an external CSS file which will overwrite the default styles of the elements we wish to style.

Let's start off with creating a new page. We're going to also put all our custom styles in a file called control_style.css. So, whenever we add a style, be sure to put it in the control_style.css. Also, make sure to include the CSS file in the <head> section with:

<link rel='stylesheet' href='control_style.css' />

Now, let's create our map object. We'll specify the controls array when we instantiate it since we do not want the PanZoombar control in this example. We also are not using a custom theme (we are just ...

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